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Ho many external samples do you use on your MEM-Card?

Ho many external samples do you use on your MEM-Card?

3 Aug 2007, 01:26
Dear collegues,

it is known that the Fantom gears need a lot booting time in case of using external samples. This is one of the reasons why many of us don't use this feature.

Now my question: Have you an idea how many percent of the samples of your CF-card you really use in patches - for your sound setup on stage or for the studio? I checked this by myself and wondered that it was not more than 20%. Means: I have a lot of (good) samples on the CF-Cards, but not linked to patches.

The background of the question: Make it sense to create a feature for a software tool to "mask" unused samples out (w/o deleting them, important!!) - so that your booting time will become much quicker?

Any suggestions?

Thanks a lot and Rock On!
Jens.

Re: Ho many external samples do you use on your MEM-Card?

3 Aug 2007, 04:05
My solution is to periodically clean out the card for only backing tracks and multisamples.

Everything else goes on to the computer.

I find having less samples on the card/memory makes things breezier.
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Re: Ho many external samples do you use on your MEM-Card?

3 Aug 2007, 05:05
Yes Diametro you are right, it makes sense to periodically clean out the card. This is the common way today I think.

Now my idea is to make it more comfortable: Not to clean out the card but to "mask out" unused samples. Means you still have access if you need them (i.e. inside of a software tool) but the booting process is "breezier" as you wrote.

What do you think - is this a reliable solution?

Cheers
Jens.

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